The Sun. — London, England, 1838-01-01 00:00:00

Ziotte of must have occasioned severe throes in the parturition, BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. Oliver Twist is capital this month—the scene of the burglary particularly, which is as minute and spirited, and truil•-like, as anything in Jonathan Wild. The touches of pathos, too, which are interspersed, here and there, through the description, reach to the heart's cafe. Our readers, we arc sure, will thank us for this extract, and regret only that We have not quoted the entire chapter : And now, for the first time, Oliver, well-nigh mad with grief and terror, saw that hous.!breaking and robbery, if not murder, were the ob jects of the expedition. He clasped his hands together, and involun tarily uttered a subdued exclamation of horror. A mist came before his eyes, the cold sweat stood upon his ashy face, his limbs failed him, and he milk upon his knees. " Get op!" murmured Sikes, trembling with rage, and drawing t! e Pistol Prom his pocket; "get up, or I'll strew your brains upon the grass:" " Oh: for God's sake let me go !" cr i ed Oliver; " let me run away and die in the fields. I will never come near London—never never Oh : pray have mercy upon me, and do not make me steal : for the lore of all the bright angels that rest in heaven, have merry upon me :" The man to whom this appeal wao made swore a dreadltul oath, and bad cocked the pistol, when Toby, striking it from his grasp, placed his hand upon the boy's mouth, and dragged him to the house. " Hush !" cried the man ; " it won't answer here. Say another word, and I'll do your business myself with a crack on the h,ad that makes no noise, and is quite as certain and more genteel. Here, bill, wrench the shutter open. He's game enough now, I'll engage. I've seen older hands of his age took the same way for a minute or two on a cold night." Sikes. invoking terrific imprecations upon Fagin's head for sending Oliver on such an errand, plied the crowbar vigorously, but with little noise; and, after some delay and some assistance from Toby, the shut: ter to which he had referred swung open upon its hinges. It was a little lattice window, about five feet and a half above the ground, at the back of the honse, belonging to a scullery or sma❑ brewing-place at the end of the passage : the aperture was so small that the inmates had probably not thought it worth while to de fend it more securely ; but it was large enough to admit a boy of Oliver's size, nevertheless. A very brief exercise of Mr. Sikes's art sufficed to everceme the fastening of the lattice, and it soon stood wide open also. " Now listen, you young limb !" whispered Sikes, drawing a dark lantern from his pocket, and throwing the glare full on Oliver's face ; `' I'm a.doing to put you through there. Take this light, go softly up the ttcps straight afore you, and along the little hall to the street-door. Unfasten it, and let us in." "French Literary Ladies" is an entertaining essay, of an easy, gossiping character, calculated to become popular in a sketchy periodical like the Miscellany. Mr. Hogarth is the author, a gentleman well known by an elaborate and scientific history of muric. " A Night of Terror" is a story, partly translated, partly imitated, from the French. It is full of interest, which is worked up with much skill, and if well rendered, would make an effective melodrame. We recommend Planche to try his practised hand at it. " Bonomye, the Usurer," is a fiction of the middle ages. It is a good magazine tale, but not of first-rate merit. One may lounge away a very pleasant half-hour o ver it. "A Chap ter on Seals" is something after the manner of Leigh Hunt in the Indicator. In the " Tale of Grammaryc" we have some lively specimens of versification, though the poem might have been abridged to advantage. " Dr. Ingoldsby's Story" —we are glad to see this name again in print—is told with rare spirit. A lady is dying of a quinsey ; her heart-broken husband, who sits at her bedside, is pouring forth his sorrows into the sympathising bosom of a pretty young friend, of the feminine gentler ; when suddenly, in the midst of his tribulation, finds—for accidents will hap pen in the best-regulated families—his lips pressed close to those of his affectionate friend. At this inauspicious mo ment his wife opens her dying eyes ; and seeing how her husband is occupied, starts fiercely up in bed, and by the energy lent her by passion, breaks her quinsey, and is cured, but not before she has saluted her spouse's sconce with a whack worthy to have been inflicted by an Irishman at Donnybrook Fair. This incident is told with singular humour, and will enliven many a Christmas fire-side. The moral it holds out too is a useful one—namely, that a husband should never make love to his maid-servant 'till he has seen his wife fairly screwed down in her coffin ! The illustrations to the Miscellany are, as usual, by Cruick shank, and are as droll as the very best of his earliest efforts. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. The cleverness and variety of this Number will make up for a great many drowsy ones that Oliver Yorke has lately turned out. The , first article is from the pen of Dr. Ma ginn. It is intitied " Homeric Ballads," and after stoutly insisting —as every lover of high and rare genius is bound to do—on the unity of Homer, in opposition to the wild theory of Wolfe,the Doctor proceeds to give us some spirited translations, in the old ballad metre, of certain detached passages in the Odyssey. His article is amusing, though too much made up of quotations, as if the author had been " to a feast of learning, and carried away all the scraps," and puts forth but one remark to which objection may be made. Dr. Maginn says, that the Spenserian metre is that best adapted for a translation of the Iliad. Now, we must demur to this, for,the measure in question is a heavy and an elaborate one, and therefore no better calculated to give the English reader an idea of Homer's fire, and vigour, and rapidity, when he comes upon battle ground, than the splendid, but monotonous versification of Pope. The rhythm of Scott in the closing cantos of Marmion is the only appropriate metre for the Iliad ; we agree, however, with the Doctor, that the Spenserian stanza would admirably befit the more sober, mellow Odyssey, which has far more repose of manner about it than the Iliad. By the bye, Alaginn hints that he may be tempted, some day or other, to give us a translation of these poems. Let him set about the task forthwith, for no man alive is better qualified to do it justice. He has fancy, feeling, learning, and a great command of language—in short, all the requisit es for a Homeric translator. " Blue Friar Pleasantries" are truly what their title imports, a collection of pleasant trifle s dashed off in easy, slip-shod verse. They are excellent Magazine reading. " Our Batch of Novels for Christmas" is a rambling, satirical articl, whose strictures however, severe as they are, contain much justice. The justest criticism is that on Miss Landon's " Ethel Churchill." The " Por traits of Spanish Carlist Chiefs" is entertaining, but too highly coloured. The praise is laid on with a trowel. From the " Newspaper Press of Franee"—the production of a writer who evidently understands what he is Writing about—we select the following judicious remarks : • The Debats, like all other daily journals in France, is published every day, Sunday included. The only holidays its editors have in the course of the year are Christmas Day, Good Friday, the Pentecost, the An. minciation of the Virgin Mary, and one of the " three days" of July, 'this is the work of a galley-slave, and rather worse. It partially ac_ counts for the fact, that there is less talent in the Paris than in the London press. Man is made to work, but not to groan. He earns his bread by the sweat of his brow; but one.seventh portion of his time is granted him to wipe that sweat away. In France it is not so, and the consequence is natural—ttse editors are soon jaded to death ; and there is little vigour, little soul in their compositions, Nature will not be cheated, though God may he dishonoured. If a man will not take enough sleep fur his body, his mind will fail him. Nature will have her way; and as the proprietors of the Paris daily press will " make haste to get rich," it very often happens that poverty overtakes them. Of all the practical reforms to be made in the French daily press, this this would be the first and the greatest ; and the editors would certainly erect pillars of marble and of brass to the daring man, who should ven ture to proclaim that in future, on Sundays, his paper would not appear. For a few days it would make a vast commotion ; but the French may be habituated to anything by firmness and decision—as Napoleon taught them to become habituated to the conscription, the censorship, absolute government, and military despotism. TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. Simpkin and Marshall. Tait's Magazine is more than usually clever this month. In no other periodical do we find a happier blending of the prose and poetry of life. A judicious and unweni ied regard to the wants and cravings of our moral and intellectual natur e has, from its commencement, marked the career of our honest radical contemporary. While the Utilitarian will find in the article on " Lord Brougham's Education Bill," ample proofs of an earnest desire to promote the mo ral improvement of the most indigent among the working classes, the reader of less practical, but more refined lite rary tastes and feelings, has only to turn to the " Weird of the Douglas" for a metrical tale of the imagination, which would not discredit the genius of Maturin or Beckford. " Dives and Lazarus" is a sketch equally powerful and affecting. Should th;s our brief notice of it fall into the hands of an Irish absentee, we pray him to lose not an in stant of making it the subject of an hour's reflection, and we can assure him beforehand that he was never likely to spend an hour more profitably. The " London Peripatetic" is clever, but of its truth we can offer neither a denial nor a c onfirmation, having never in our byes assisted at the meetin g of the " Sons and Daughters of ILrmony"—vul . garly called Cock and lien Clubs. There is deep pathos in the following extract from it. The less abandoned fre quenters of the Harmonic Saloon at the" Cock and Bottle," Seven Dials, are separating for the night :—" A girl, scarce • sixteen, who has obtained leave to go to the play, is paesing out ; her arm locked in that of you bloated teflon , of forty. 11 er eyes l oo k wild —for s h e h as d ran k liquor for the first 1 ; her cheek is crimsoned—for she lanciys every eye reads w h at has passed in her own mind, and every car has. heard what hers alone drank in. Her companion, with half dosed eyes, and bead bowed down towards his breast, walks calmly beside her. He has made sure work of it : it is too lute for her to return to her home. Her one glance of agony at the clock over the bar is terrible. The man soothes her—she drinks again —Reader, you know the rest of her history !" From graver we turn to gayer sub jects—to the contemplation of the joy with which Hanover will hail the fulfilment of the Satanic prediction herein after set forth in the closing stanza of the " Devil in Er nest :" In his cabinet chair, King Ernest sat, Doing the statesman, and all that; O'er Ernest's shoulder, with earnest gaze, Peered his old Mephistophes ; By his " hoof and horn," you might see full quick 'Twas only Fe! ule's mask di-guised Old Nick; And, glancing from face to face, you'd swear That h—l never mated a likelier pair! " Oh, ho!" quoth Satan, " and so it appears You'll summon the States just once in three years." " But only for three months at time." " Ho, ho!" quoth Saran, " a law s,blime!" " And with the three months I'll soon dispense." " Ila: ha!" quoth Satan, " that's d—d good sense!" " And, to shcw," rejoined Ernest, " I mean to be civil, I'll blow the whole beggarly crew to the devil!" Amazement erected Lucifer's horn; his eyes of their light for a space were shorn; And the goose-quill blazed in Ernest's hand, As though 'twere a genuine hell-fire bratid: O'er " CONSTITUTION," one stroke he drew, And cried, " 'Tis extinct! Le Roi to veut Then, with his sublime excitement pal., Ile nodded; and ?'other fiend wagged his tail? " Extinct :" roared Lucifer; " new, by this hoof ! And that is a curse would rend h—l's roof— Mock-modesty's not your fau't, I see; For this bangs Bannagher ; that bangs me! My heart warms towards you ; so does h—l— clearly in ERNEST nosy—farewell:" Then, paw upon shoulder, and tongue in check, Ile muttered, " Old cock, you'll be mine next week :" John Galt has given the economists a nut to crack in " the Speculawtor," a tale of the North, illustrative of the mo dern principles of commerce. John, as they say in Paisley, is a " clever bit of a body," and though we cannot always see so clearly as he would wish the moral drift of his stories, we will not say that they would please us better even if we did. The fact is, that we never in our lives could find fault with a good story, simply because those wiseacres who delight in moralizing upon every thing, failed in diseo vering the moral which they concluded it must be intended to convey. A hearty laugh--a feeling of mysterious awe— or the satisfaction derived from learning that a pair of sensi tive souls (such figure best in plaintive tale or mournful ditty) have been made happy, is all we care for. In addi tion to the other articles, there are a number of very well written reviews, which give both interest and variety to 'f'ail's opening columns for the New Year. UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. This is excellent Club reading, for it does not severely tlx thought. The articles are short and various, and most of them have reference to naval and military matters. The most amusing one in the present Number is " The Run to the Channel Islands," which is a terse, but graphic account of a trip made last autumn by the steam-boat from Southampton to Jersey and Guernsey. This, by the way, is becoming one of the popular, if not fashionable, excur sions of the day ; and wo do not wonder at it, for it does not very seriously affect the pocket, and enables the tourist to see much novelty in a short space of time. We agree with the writer that Southampton is one of the most beautiful towns in the kingdom ; and as choicely situated as any lover of the picturesque could desire, being close by the New Forest, and within a two hours' sail of that paradise, the Isle of Wight. " A Retrospect of 1837" gives an ac count of the promotions made last year in the army ; it is written in a spirit of discontent, the. propriety or other wise, of which we can say nothing about, as we are wholly uninformed on all military matters. " Cavalry Colonies in the South of Ru s si a " are a series of. observations suggested by Marshal Marmont's lately published book of travels in the dominions of the Czar. The writer entertains a fa vourable opinion —and from the tenor of his remarks, we should conclude him to be a competent judge—of the Russian cavalry, more particularly of their state of dis_ cipline and celerity of movement. " Sketches of Military Life in India" is a trite theme, lightly and gracefully treated. Of the remaining articles we can venture to say nothing, for they are for the most part of a military statistic character. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Tho papers entitled " Pickwick Abroad," are more amusing this month than they were last ; but then it must be borne in mind, that they are mere imitations, and that the main design of the whole has been supplied by Boz. The plates, however, by Alfred Crowquil, who bids fair to rival Cruickshank in popularity, are excellent—indeed, quite as good as those which appeared in the original Pickwick. " Tableaux from Sporting Life," is a collection of entertaining gossip en matters in which most people feel a❑ interest. Asa specimen of the author's manner, we subjoin his description of the different Newmarket race courses, the finest, as all the world knows, in this, or any other country. " Ascending the hill by which we entered the town, as soon as that is left behind, an open space lies in front, over which, leaving the high road on the left, is the commencement of the Heath. On the right, in front of the course, stands a range of stabling, the rubbing houses of the Beacon Course; a little further onward is the Stand, weighing. house, and judge's chair, and opposite to them the Jockey Club Stand, serving for the Beacon ; three last miles of ditto ; last mile of ditto ; Ditch In and Audley End courses. There are eighteen courses altoge ther, laid out over various parts of the Heath, which, however, with the exception of the Beacon and the Round Course beyond the Ditch (save during a race being run over them), have no local habitation to the eye of the stranger. Skirting the B. C., which runs at your right hand like a woof of Persian velvet, you next arrive4lt the Duke's Stand, of which you are already instructed ; and then, _away before you, in front, and on either hand, spreads the magnificent Flat, with one exception (the Curragh of Kildare, the Irish Metropolitan Racing ground), the finest piece of turf in these. dominions. As you proceed towards it, you pass also, on the right, the weighing-house used for the races over the Flat, and perceive in the distance, under shelter of the ditch, the saddling. stables appropriated to it. By this arrangement, races over the Flat at Newrbarket are run upon a plan unknown elsewhere, an unequalled fur Its convenience. the horses are saddled at a point opposite to which is placed the weighing-house, which must be their destination as soon as their race is over. Mid-way between each li, the course upon which they contend, and, having passed the goal, they are gently cased from their speed up the rise that finishes at the weighing.houle, whence they are walked to their stables ; thus, as it is seen, every stride taken after saddling is so much of she horse's way: home." " Letters from Germany and Belgium," are pleasantly written upon the whole, but hero and there they dwell to:. lengthily on matters not worth noting. The cursory sketch of Aix-la-chapelle and its neighbourhood, shows considerable power of description. " Portraits from the Peerage" is a biographical account of Lord 'Lyndhurst, penned in an impartial spirit, with the single exception of the introductory passage, which is somewhat too adulatory. The " Baronesis" is a talo that does not imprcre as it pro coeds. THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE. Saunders and Otley. The sketch of the life of Judge Perrin, front the " Notebook of an Irish Barrister," has all the faults of the Pacceding sketches from th e same pm. The style i' Vompous—nceasionally bombastic ; and like most author: who essay the sublime, the writer contrives to be not unfre quently unintelligible. As he is fond of quoting the an cients, we recommend him to study Plutarch with more at • rcntion—a work by no mean s un i nv i t i ng s i nce R osseat • a ssures us that its perusal extingui s h e d i n hi m a ll regar d f o . R omances, though he had previously sat up whole night, rather than forego the pleasure of learning the fate of tl.t heroes and heroines of such productions. " Nature an, Art" nitely hY Mrs. Gore, is clever —very cl e ver ; thou g h infi infe r i or t o M rs . Inchbabl's beautiful, and stiil more patheti c tale, under the same title. Mrs. Gore's appeals ire mud s to the understanding. Mrs. Inehbald addresse:. herself directly to the heart, and in its inmost recesses hci every sentence finds, and must always find, a kindred echo. The " London Newsmen," by the author of " Random Re collections of the Houses of Lords and Commons" is true to life. We select an extract from it : " The London newsmen are, as far as can be ascertained, about fir hundred in nu mber. Most of them have one or more boys in their employ ; and those whose business is not suffiAently extensive to club', them to employ boys, arc often obliged to call in the aid of their wive: —always, of course, assuming they have them—in the dedvery of th papers. The n ewsmen purchase ail their papers, either direct at Or offices of the different journals, or at one of the three or four whole. sale house s, exist in their own tr a d e. Th e newsmen get a ll O papers, they charge their custom ers fi repence f or f ourpencei one penny on each Paper being all that they lea ve t o ma intain them. for eslag the expenses cons equent on t h e i r b us i ness, an d run . g h bad debts. It seen from this that the pro. s u e i l n r t , ei after is k p o a f y i newspapers do not, like th ose o f th e provinces, g. t ) h r e ie l t ) ° r r iCe o s f m i l° a 4 r " k n ed n 1 on them, and at which they are sold to the read, rs, but that one penny is deducted front the amount. They arc not, how ever, on a more un favourable footing than thc proprietors of provincial papers on this accou nt ; they give no credit, and consequently al. not subject to bad debts. Between the long credits given in the the e bad debts to wh - ch the p ropr i e t ors o f papers ar , they would not be in a worse pos i t i on were th ey pu on the same footing as the proprietors of L on d on newspapers. provinces,t there subjected, and h " Perhaps there are few callings in London mere arduous that that of the . newsmen. They usualY rise at flee o'clock in the morn. ing at all seasons of the year, and in all Ports of weather. This i necessary in order that th ey m ay deliver morning papers in sufficient time to their customers. A little before six they begin to muster strong at the offices of the various morning journals. And a more uproarious or merry set of persons, notwilistanding all their hard trudging through town, is nowhere to be found. They are all alive, or, as Mr. O'Connell would say, a'l ' agitation,' from the time they assemhle in any cons doable num! er, until they have gave got their pcpers. They not only keep constantly moving about among each other, hut are great hands at 'cloying all sorts of tricks at each other's expe ise. Nor are they by any means niggard of their jokes. Their wittioisms, such as they are, are scattered about in ere.it pro. fusion, and it is som,thing certainly get made up in quantity what s lacking in quality. Those of them, especially :he you-ger portion of the class, who cannot even by accident stumble on a joke, neverth.:- less contrive by some means or other to contribute their share to the general liveliness of the scene—moat frequent' y by a very powerful !Ise of their stentorian abilities. Ey way of still greater variety, it is by no m2ans en unusual thing to witness something in the shape of a little sparing, though happily seldom ending in any serious conse quences to either party. " The time for seeing the uproarious copal i ities of the newsmen to the greatest advantage, is when there is a late publication of any of the most extensively circulated journals. Then their noise, their ex elamations, and the rapidity of their mcvements backwards and for. wards reach what some people would c.. 11 the acme of perfection. The little rascals of boys, especially, are all tongua, and motion together. Neither their lungs our their bodi:•s arc suiFer d to enjoy a moment's repose; in fact, it looks as if the little fellows could not survive a se cond, were they to remain quiet that length of time. Occasionally they evince a strong disposition to quarrel with, and abuse, each other; hut the main current of their indignation is generally directed against all and sundry connected with the lacy journal. Editors, compositors, printer, and publishers, all receive their respective modicums of what these juvenile personages call ' thundering abuse.' The scene exhibited outside the office, or inside, if they can gain admission on such occa sions, is one which altogether defies description. If there be a person whose 'vocal taste' is so strange as to love a confusion of sounds, the door of a morning newspaper-office at such a time, is the place where it may be gratified." " Between four and five comes the publication of the evening papers, which now occupies the attention of the newsmen. In this case, however, their pedestrian capabilities are not called into exercise to the same extent as in the case of the morning papers, the far greater portion of the evening journals being simply put into the past-race, to be forwarded to subscribers in the country. The delivery of the evening papers is usually :over before six o'olock ; but then, for at least six months in the year, that is to say, during the time that Par liament is sitting, they have to watch the publication of second edi tions of the evening parrs, as many ef their country customers give positive instructions to have the second editions regularly sent them. " Some idea may be formed from what I have stated of the laborious. ness of a newsman's life. If there be an industrious, hard-working member of the community, he is the "man. I am assured that there are some newsmen who, in the prosecution of their pursuits as distri butors of the public journals, walk or run upwards of twenty miles every day. And this, be it recollected, in all weathers, whether in the 'summer's heat' or ' winter's cold.' " And what aggravates the hardship of a newsman's condition is, that the Sabbath, which to most other classeiof the community ailbrds a cessation from labour, 'shines no day of rest to him.' A considerable pert of that pay is spent in the delivery of Sunday papers "And yet, notwithstanding the laborious duties which devolve on the newsmen, and the fact that he scarcely ever enjoys one hour's inter mission from them from one year's end to the another—notwithstanding this, his remuneration is so small, after paying the necessary ex penses incurred in carrying on his business, and allowing for bad debts and unsold papers, that he, except in very rare cases indeed, has no prospect, by any practicable economy, of ever being able to 'lay by' anything against the time of sickness or the infirmities of advanced years; and he thinks it a gr:at matter if he can by his greatest in dustry and exertions, earn as much as will procure him his daily bread. " I know of no body of men who contribute more largely to the com fort of the metropolitan community than the newsmen. Without them the daily papers could not Is 2 expeditiously or effectually circu lated throughout so vast a place as London. I cannot conceive of any machinery, were the task of distributing their papers lett to the proprietors of the papers themselves, by which that task could be s itifactorily executed. Whenever any country order for a news paper is addressed to the proprietors of the paper ordered, which is often done through ignorance of the fact that all th e London journals are circulated through the intervention of newsmen„the order is handed over to some particular newsmen, and, for the penny profit on each copy of the paper, he runs the risk of the bad debt, :should there be no order for payment on any house in London." " Venice and its Dependencies" is an able article, but it wants the philosophical spirit that would recommend it to our entire approbation. The fact is, that we have never yet met with more than one work in which anything like justice was done to the policy of the Venetian Republic. Her jealousy was excessive, and often tinctured with bar barous cruelties. This is known to every reader of the history of the period in which she flourished ; whereas there is not one in a thousand of such readers, who is at a ll aware of the crimes, on the part of neighbouring states, which compelled her to adopt measures of such severity in the case of her most illustrious citizens. To be suspected was fatal, because to expose one's-self to suspicion was really to hazard the safety of the Republic. The " Bit O'Writin" is after Banim's manner, but it is by no means among the happiest effuaions of his genius. We must not, however, forget thot the corrector of the press has marred its beauties not a little, by making Scotch of Irish is ords— to the great annoyance of those who, like ourselves, arc ivell skilled in the peculiar dialects of both Kingdoms. Match-breaking,",by Mrs. Ably, cannotibe too extensively circulated among Spinster Aunts, and we entreat such of our readers as sympathise with the sufferings of love-lorn damsels to present with a copy of it every lady of their acquaintance who has arrived at " a certain age" without getting entangled in the netts of Hymen. It is admirably calculated to prevent a world of mischief. " Aunt Kate and her Five Nieces" is an excellent tale, and a well-told one too. Were ladies bribed to remain single there would not be an old maid within her Majesty's British dominions. The Literary notices and notes for the month display an abundant share of attention to whatever is connected with the editorial department. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. Allen and Co. The " Review of Eastern News" is the first of a series of Articles which, if written in the style and manner of the one before us, cannot be too long continued. In such el form ought the more important. Oriental intelligence to be monthly conveyed to the British public. The Article " Steam Navigation with India," strongly maintains the practicability of the scheme suggested by Dr. Lardner for effecting that great national object. The " Turf in India" is a sketch of life in the East, for which our previous know ledge of Oriental habits had not altogether prepared us. We recommend it to the notice of the Jockey Clubs at home. The other Articles are on subjects in which none hut Anglo-Indians are likely to take an interest. " The Notes of the Month" are numerous, and well selected. o i " Britiih Agriculture," and the " Itepor of the SeIP( Committee on the Civil List." We extract from it the fu!lowing tabular view of the population of Upper and Lower Canada : At th^ affairs of Canada excite at the present moment greet public anxiety, we are induced to axtract the following information milting to the Upper and Lower l'wvinc:.s, from an Address on the Legislative Union of Upper and Lower Canada, published about four months by the Constitutional Association of Montreal. We confine ourselves exclusively to the statistical p,rtion of the document, omitting the po litical deductions contained in it. The adult population of the two provinces, and their rate of increase, arc illustrated by the following details : TABULAR VIEW OF THE POPULATION OF BOTH PROVINCES, AND ITS KATE OF INCREASE. Rate of Increase in the General l'opti!ation of Lower Canada, from 1760 to 1636 inclusive. a 1780, the population of the undivided pro vince was Increase. 1784, ditto ditto 1825, the population of Lower Canada, by a corrected cen , us, say 1831, the population of Lower Canada, by census of this year, was 1336, the population of Lower Canada, sup posed to be Increase in six years, from 1825 to 1831, of Lower Canada Ditto in five years, 1831 to 1836; of Lower Canada General rate from 1825 to 1836, of Lower Canada, 11 years Average increase, from 1760 to 1784, of Lower Canada, per annum Ditto increase, from 1784 to 1825, of Lower Canada, per annum Ditto increase, front 1825 to 1231, of Lower Canada, per annum Ditto increase, from 1831 to 1836, of Lower Canada, per annum... 13A per cent. 17 2-oths „ 331 ~ 2,000 8,219 10,319 17,816 From 1760 to 1836 the population has doubled itself 31 times in Lower Canada. Taking the corrected census returns in 1825, and those of 1631, and the generally supposed population in December, 1836, the population of Lower Canada would appear to double itself in twenty-nine years only. Hate of Increase in the General Population of Upper Cicada, from the year 1824 to 1836 inclusive. In 1824 149,301 1825 156,886—Increase 7,515 1826 164,703 7,815 1827 18214... ...... ....186,345 11,217 . 1829 .. 196,704 1830— ...... ..211,569 14,863 1831 234,681 1832 260,994 26,311 1833...... ....... 296,870. 1834 320,735 1835 346,165 25,430 1836 .375,000 28,835 Average increase from 1824 to 1828 per annum 9,261 1828 to 183 0 18,661 1832 to 1836 General aver. increasc.lB24 to 1636 . . .. 18,712 Comparing the census of 1924 with that of 1833, and that of 1829 with that of 1836, it appears that the population of Upper Canada has of late doubled in about nine years, which, compared with the popula tion of Lower Canada, is in the proportion of less than one-third. The general average increase of Lower Canada, per annum, from 1825 to 1836, is 16,029 —being less than the annual increase of Upper Ca. nada by 2 , 683 . By the Provincial Act of the 9th of Geo. IV., thirty-seven counties return two representatires each, and three return one each, to the Pro vincial Legislature; of these counties five are included in that portion of the province denominated the Eastern Townships, which, being settled almost entirely by inhabitantsef British origin, return members of that race, but in the remainder the inhabitants of French origin preponderate so greatly that the representation is almost exclusively French Canadian, or in support of French Canadian views. The provincial representation of Lower Canada is at present ninety members, of whom about one-eighth, or eleven in number, represent the wants of the inhabitants of British origin. The census of 1831 estimated the whole provincial population at 511,917, and stated the number of Roman Catholics to be 403,472, leaving, therefore, 108,445 to be Protestants, none of whom could be of French origin. Of the Catholics it is reasonably estimated, that 50,000 are of British origin, and the statement must therefore be satisfactory, that in 1831 the total number of inhabitants of British origin was 158,000, whilst that of French origin was 353,000. Assuming, therefore, that the increase from 1831 to 1836 has raised the aggregate number to 600,000, the difference will be 89,081; but it is notorious that the fixed population of the province not only suffered great mortality from Asiatic cholera, in the years 1932 and 1834, but that during that period, and especially during the past two years, it has been much reduced by the emigration of French Canadian youth to the territories of tho United States, whilst it is equally well known, from authentic sources, that in the period above-mentioned 195,000 emi grants have arrived at Quebec from the mother country,of whom it is calculated that 35,000 have settled in Lower Canada: the natural in. crease of the whole provincial population would thus only be 54,081, which, divided between the two races, in the proportions of 156 to 353, would augment the number of inhabitants of French origin to nearly 390,000 souls, and those of British origin to nearly 175,000 ; to which being added the number Of settlers by emigration, say 35,000, the total number of the latter would be 210,000, and the aggregate proportion of Ille two races, therefore, is as 210,000 to 390,000, in round numbers. A cursory examination of the preceding calculation shows that not only is the increase of the inhabitants of British origin in Lower Canada extremely rapid, but that it is in a very much greater proportion than that of the inhabitants of French origin. The following is a statement of the amount of stock in the public un dertakings of the district of Montreal, held by the inhabitants of the two races composing the population : Sharcs.l Wish. French A:. X. X. X. I. Stock of the Think of Montreal 250,000 5,000 2(7, 4 00 2,600 2 Ditto of City Bank 3. Ditto of Champlain and St. Law rence Railroad Company..... 4. Ditto Montreal Waterworks~ - S. Ditto St. Lawrence Steam-boat Com pany ..... 6. Ditto Mont real Steam l'ow-boat Com iiany 7. Ditto Ottawa and Rideau Forward ing Company. 6. Ditto St. Lawrence Steam-boat and Mail-coach Company 25,000 1,000 25,000 - P. Ditto Montreal Gasworks I Ditto St. Anti Market 13,574 1,425 11. Ditto of other steamboats and capital invested in the forwarding esta blishments on the St. Lawrence, above and below 'Montreal 20,000 50,000 - 318,3:,0 799,240 111,4t0 FRENCH CANADIAN INSTITUTIONS. I. :Stock of Mutual Insurance Company .0,000 ... 16,211 23,710 2. Ditto Bank du People-People's Bank, tgo,ooo ... :30,000 50,000 93-,30 616.2'41 1 3 2,10 _ _ 9t-,'ZO paid. 616.2'41 tpposed. • Present value. f Cost NATIONAL MAGAZINE. The Retrospective Re Zew for this Month consists of a criticism on D.. Jo!:nson's works, in which the writer is pleased to discover every spe _ies of haibw:sat and absur dity. The grim oil lion of 80lt -court was, it seems, neither poet, critic, pliFosopher, essayist, nor philologist. His ge n'us was nothing more than " the intensity of common place." That there is much " common-place', in John •on's writings ; especially in his Rambler, we grant ; but this most always be the cese with those who write in haste. and from the imperious necessity of the moment, in order to furnish them with the day's meal and the night's lodging. But will this sage Reviewer tell us that he who wrote the Lives of the Poets, and the Introduction to Shakspcare's Plays, was no critic ; that he who compiled that stupen ious work, the English Dictionary, was no Lexicographer ; chat he who wrote " Rasselas" was no Phi!o:opher ? We have no patience with such arrogant presumption ! Surly Sam has now taken his stand among the classics of air language, and is not to be written down, even by a critic of this " age of intellect." As an author of a sound, vigorotis understanding, di ciplined by long acquaintatce .with actual life—not the mere still-hfe of books—old John ion was withoitt an equal, and has had no successor. Whatlean surpass the critical perspicacity of his remarks in Pope, or the metaphysical acumen of those on Cowley. And then his " Vanity of Human Wishes !" Is there nothing here worthy of praise ? No splendid description —no majestic march of versification ? Why, there is more verling genius in this one poem, than in all the rhymes that nave been ".whe'ped" since the clays of " Don Juan !" But enough of this. " Alicia Gray" is a well-written story, whose denouement is brought at•out with much tact. The remainder of the articles contain little or nothing worthy of particular comment. On the w",o!e, the Number—except• ug tha idle attack on Johnson—is a fair enough average one. THE ARBORETUM BRITANNICUM, No. LL THE SUBURBAN GARDENER, Nn. VIII. THE ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE. Longman and Co. These publications do not properly come under the head Goncral Literature, be:ng peculiarly adapted to supply Aid) necessary information Agriculturists, Gardeners, and Architects. They are all conducted by Mr. Loudon, whose numerous works on these subjects are among th , °est and most popular in the language. THE RA IL WAY MAGAZINE. Wykl. A rather interesting Number of a work devoted wholly subjects of practical science. • The Article on the Glas :ow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway, is worthy of the .notice of our Northern Contemporaries. We have not :puce left for any extracts. THE STATISTICAL JOURNAL. Pixley. This periodicAl has now reached a fourth Numhcr, anc promises to be successful. The Right lion, the Speaker of the House of Commons has thought so highly of it as to sanction its dedication to hini. Among the articles in the Number for January is one on the " Excise," arother In addition to the informa'ion contained in the beforementioned ad dress relative to the population of Canada, we subjoin the following par ticulars. By the census of 1831 the population of Lower Canada is thus classified The number of proprietors of real property is given at 57,891, and the extent of land occupied by them at 3,1081,793 statute acres. The number of persons living in 1831 who were deaf and dumb is stated to have been 408, the blind 334, and the insane 924. The number of inhabitants professing the Roman Catholic faith in 1831 is given (as before stated) at 403,472 ; the persons in connection with the Church of England were 34,620 ; those belonging to the Church of Scotland amounted to 15,069. There were only 107 Jews ; the re mainder of the population were Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, not in connection with the Church of Scotland, and other sects. Th • number of families employed in agriculture was 50,824, employing among them as farm servants only 7,002 persons. There were in the same year (1831) 2,503 families engages! in commercial pursuits, and 1 , 282 persons subsisting on alms. The number of inhabited houses is stated to have then been 82,437—the number being built 1,458, and the vacant 1,542 ; making a total of 85,437. Table gives an z.c co unt of the amoun t o f th e poputa tioill'ite fl in the different rent counties of Lower Canasta : Rank of Popula- tank of fire St. Name of the lion in Law- County. tion in DLL the St. Name of the Ninth. Law-renec. County. 1831. retwe. to lee. ------ •----- ,----- ------7 r Faguenay ......... 8,314.1 r 13auharnois••• . 16,857 Montmorency.. 3, ; 4 3 i L'Acatlie Orleans North{ Portoeuf 12,350 "" u ficattee [Champlain Torrebonne 10,6•23 Nicolet ... ..... ... 1•2,5111 Montreal ILa l'rarie 111,497 Slut!) ...' Missisquoi 4,31!) co th a i Kamouraska 14,.'67 Chambly I * , ,),3 I Shertord Vereheres Itouville 1 Richelieu 1 1.149 1 !Drummond l •r•C ~ • Soutll.4 S. 1.1 mein) he.. Li.3o‘i 1 U Mogantic i cm ,k a ...... .. 9,496 I [thispe p Lotbin ere Dorchester [ I.'l-let Rimouski ......... 1i.,001 „ i 2 Rivers i I Queb. ,, St. Maurire Berthier 1 ',909 •20,...!•25 6,0'20 North L' A ssom ption ... 12;767 Laehenaye . ... 9,161 I Two Mountain,. 2.,9 5 Va udreuil l'l l • The total seigneurial population of the county population, according I [ the census of 1831, was 385,237, and the total of the township pop lation 52,695. The seven counties from Ottawa to Megantic, inclusiv either contain a mnio,its. —.--: • • • • ^ - ' The total seigneurial population of the county population, cording to the census of 1831, was 385,237, and the total of the township popu lation 52,095. The seven counties from Ottawa to Megantic, inclUsive, either contain a majority, or c ons i s t exc l us i ve l y o f popu l at i on resident in townships. G aspe and Bonaventure are inhabited by a very mi xe d population, chiefly engaged in the fisheries. In the rest of the counties the major part of the population is seigneurial. The inhabitants of the seigneurtes may, for general purposes, be reckoned as French by origin ; the inhabitants of the townships as English. The total of the township population is not, however, to be taken as the total of the population of English descent. The numbers inter versed with the population of French descont are variously estimated from 50,000 to 80,000 souls; of vhotn from 20,000 to 30,000 are in the cities and towns. The remainder are dispersed about the country, but always overborne (as in towns and cities), with the exception, per haps, of Beanhartiois, by majorities of French origin. In the county of Two Mountains, and behind the seigneuries . on the north bank of the St. Lawrence, pcs haps the inhabitants of British descent may be found sufficiently condensed to claim, under another rule of division, to form separate electoral districts; but, in general, they are so dispersed as scarcely to make it possible for their influence to be felt in elections, ex cept by the adoption of some novel principle. A table relativetathestateof the representation in Lower Cana:la is given in the Appeni ix to the Report of the Canada Commissioners. At the time that table teas drawn up, the number of representatives in the House of A ssem bl y was 8 8. T h e cities and boroug h s sent altogether 11 represent a ti ves t o th e Assembly, and all the counties, with the cx caption of Montmorency, Drummond, and Ale antic, sent two repro. sentatives each to the Iloasa of Assembly. The three just-mentioned counties sent one representative earls, their population bring in 18:31 under 4,000. By the Provincial Act, set ling the representation of the province, it is enacted that all counties shoulo have two Members whose population at the time of the passing of the Act amounted to 4,000 or upwards; and that those under 4,000 should have one Mem ber only until they attained that number. The csoulty of MegantT is the onl• one that now remains entitled to no more than one Member. It js stated in the address of the Constitutional Association, that in the period of five years, from 1831, the number of emigrants who ar rived at Quebec from the mother country was 195,000, of whom it is calculated that 35,000 have sett'cd in Lower Canada ; thus showing that the greater proportion of the emigrants only made use of Lower Canada as a country of transit. From 1820 to 18:35, both inclusive, the total cumber of emigrants who arrived at Quebee_was 211,159. Of these, 53,252 came from England and Wales, 26,816 from Scotland, and 128,578 from bel'nd, making a total of 258,601 emigrants from the United Kingdom. The majority of the emigrants passed to the up. Per province, and some proceeded to the United States. The number oi actual settlers who arrived in the country between 1825 and 1331 was only 23,406. The following table exhibits the amount of the births, marriages, and deaths in 1833 and 1834: 1833. 1834. Births , 25,247 26,114 Marriages . . • 4,783 4,598 Deaths . . . 10,793 15,714 In the first year the proportion of births to the po:sulation is 1 in 221, of marriages lin 107, and of deaths lin 47. In 1834 the proportion is shown to be: births, 1 in 191 ; marriago, 1 ill 111 ; and death , , in 321. The number of men from 18 to 59 year; of ?ge embo,ned in the militia, for the defence Of the Lower Province, in 1633 amounted to 94,337 ; the number of battitliotiS was 88; of companies, 1,040; an,: of muskets, 8,004- The population of the counties of the Upper Pro vince, in 1834, was as follows: Ottawa, 13,9351 Eastern, 25,105 ; Johnstown, 28,061 ; Bathurst, 22,079 ; Midland, 44,392 ; Newcastle, 27,404 ; Home, 55,540 (including Toronto, 9,252); iiii3Otra, 27,347 ; Gore, 34,618; London, 38,330 ; Wert rA, 12,752. Total, 311,903. ZI]VE. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGA Simpkin and illarslaill. The first portrait in the " Gallery of liht trious Irisi men" for the New Year, is that of James, Duke of Or monde, so celebrated for the part he played in the great Irish rebellion of 1641—a rebellion now well known to be wholly defensive on the part of the Catholics of the North. Even Lord Clarendon, the apologist of the Governor nt, in his " Historical Review or the Affairs of Ireland," says— " About the beginning of November 1641, the English and Scltch forces in Carrickfergus murdered, in one night, all the inhabitants of the Island Gee (commonly called Mac- Gee), to the number of above 3,000, men, women, and children, all innocent persons, in a time when none of the Catholics of that country were in arms or rebellion." And his Lordship adds emphatically—" Note that this was the first massacre committed in Ireland on either side." In another part of the same work he says—" In Derry's county the neighbouring English garrisons of the county of Cork, after besieging and pillagng all that country, mur dered above 300 persons in cold blood before any rebellion began in Munster, and led 100 labourers prisoners to Ca perquin, where being tried, they were by couples cast into the river, and made sport to see them drowned. Observe that this-county is not charged with any murders committed on Protestants." In the teeth of these facts, which are well attested, the author of the sketch before us, with mar vellous impudence, throws the blame of O'Neill's rebellion upon the Catholics—affects utter ignorance of the forged letters addressed by the Government to that brave but un fortunate Chieftain—and has the effrontery to represent as a hero possessed of every virtue, a man who exceeded his master in duplicity—who alternately tried to sell the King to the Parliament and betray the Parliament to the King— who was only consistent through life in his hatred of the Catholics, to whom he first owed his influence, and subse quently his life. In the list of Ireland's illustrious sons, neither the philosopher, the statesman, the divine, nor the warrior, can wish to see the name of James Duke of Ormond. That he had some qualities of a statesman we admit. He was vigilant, subtle, and well versed in the arts of petty intrigue ; but though not deficient in moral or personal courage, he had no true elevation of mind— sported with the lives and fOrtunes of men without necessity and without compunction—and at last fell the victim of a policy, which as it had no definite object but personal ag grandisement, and was based on no sounder principles than what the chapter of accidents might turn up, could not be expected to be successful. Cromwell took Ireland before Ormonde had time to sell it, and thus robbed treason of its reward. The " Roman Catholic Oath" is a subject long since exhausted, and upon which it were better for the Conservative party that nothing had ever been written. The " Ghost and the Bone-setter" from the MS. papers of the late Rev. Francis Purcell, of Drumcoolagh, is a sketch after our own heart. We subjoin an extract : Well, Terry Neil, for that was my father's name, began to feel his heart growl's' light and his purse heavy, an' he took a bit iv a farm in Squire Phalhn's ground, just under the mild castle, an' a pleasant little spot it was; an' day and mornin' poor crathurs not able to put a foot to the ground, with broken arms and broken legs, id be cumin' ramblin' in from all quarters to have their bones spliced up. Well, yer Honour, all this was as well as well could be; but it was customary when Sir Phalinsid go anywhere out iv the country for some iv the tenants to sit up to watch in the ould castle, just for a kind of compliment to the ould fa mily—an' a mighty unpleasant compliment it was fur the tinants, for there wasn't a man of them but knew there was something quare about the ould castle. The neighbours had it, that the Squire's ould grand father, as good a gintleman, God be with him, as I heer'd, as ever stood in shoe leather, used to keep walkin' about in the middle iv the night, ever sinst be bursted a blood vessel pullin' out a cork out iv a bottle, as you or I might be (loin', and will too, plase God; but that doesn't sig nify. So, as I was sayin', the ould Squire used to come down out of the frame, where his lacthur was hung up, and brake the bottles and glasses, God be merciful to us all, an' dhrink all he could come at—an' small blame to him for that same; and then s if any of the family id be cumin' in he id be up again in his place, loaking as quiet an' innocent as if he didn't know anything about it—the mischievous ould chap. Well, your Honour, as I was sayin', one time the family up at the castle was stayin' in Dublin fur a week or two; and so, as usual, some of the tinants had to sit up in the castle, and the third night it kern to my father's turn. "Oh, tare an ouns," says lie unto himself, " an' must I sit up all night, and that old vagab qui of a sperit, glory be to God," says he, " serenading through the house, an' doing' all sorts iv mischief." However, there was 110 gettin' aft', and so he put a horrid face on it, an' he went up at nightfall with a bottle of potteen, arid ano ther of holy wattles. " Oh, blur an' agres," says my father, "isn't this a hard ease," says he, "that ould villain, lettin' on to be my friend, and to go as'ecp way, an' us both in the very room with a sperit,'' says ha " The crass o' Christ about us," says he, anti with that he was goin' to shake Law rence to waken him, but he just remembered if he roused him that he'd surely go off to his bed, an' lave him complately alone, an' that id be by far worse. But there was one place thing I forgot to tell you. He couldn't help, in spite as' himself, lookin' now an' thin at the piethur, an' he imme diately obsarved that the eyes as it was follyin' him about, starin' at him, an' winkin' at him, wherever lie whit. All of a suddint the storm stopt, as silent an' as quiet as if it was a July evenin'. Well, your ho boils, it wasn't stopped for three minnitcs before he thought he hard a sort iv a noise over the chimnry-piece ; and with that my father just opened his eyes the smallest taste in life, an' sure enough he seen the ould squire gettin' out iv the picthur, for all the world as if he was throwin' an' his ridin' coat, until he slept chine an' complatc oat av the chimly.piece, an' thrun himself down an the floor. Well, the sliaveen ouid chap—and my father shought it was the dirtiest turn iv all—before he beginned to i'o anything out iv the way, he stopped, for a while, to listen wor they both asleep ; and' as soon as he thought all was quiet, he put out his hand, and tuck hould iv the whiskey bo tie, an' dhrank at taste a pint iv it. NVell, your honour, when he tuck his turn out iv it, he settled it back mighty cute intirely in the very same spot it was in before. Well, your honour, my father was asy enough until the sperit kern past him so close, God be marsiful to st , all, that the smell iv the sulphur tuck the breath (lane out iv him ; an' with that he tuck such a tit iv eoughin' that it al-a-most shuck him out iv the chair he was sittin' " Ho, ho!" says the squire, stoppin' short about two steps' aft and turnite round facin' my father, "is it you that's in it ? An' how's all with you, Ten y Neil ?" " Atyour honour'issarvice," says my father (a , well as the fright is let Mai; for he was more dead than alive), " an' it's proud lam to sec yoiartfaiiour to-night s '? says he. "'Well," says the sperit, "although I was as sober .1 most men—at laste as most gintleman"—says he; " an' though I was at different pa riods a most extempory Christian, and most charitable and inhuman to the poor," says he; " for all that I'm not a' asy where lain now," says he, " as 1 had a right to expect," says he. " An' more's the pity," says my father ; wish to have a word with Fattier Murphy ?" " Mould your tongue, you mishera'sle blig, - ;ard," says the squire " it's not iv my soul I'm thinkin'—an' I wondher you'd have the impi tence to tall to a gintleman c ,nsarnin' his sow); and when I want th, fixed," says he, slappin' his thigh, " I'll ga to them that knows what be longs to the likes," says hs. " not my sowl," says he, sittin' down opposite my father; " it's not my sawl that's annoyin' me most—l'm un asy on my rght less," says he " that I brsick at Glenvarloch cover the day I killed black Barney." My father found out Miller it was a favourite horsy that fell undhcr him, afther leaping the big fince that runs along by the skm. " I hope," says my father, " your honour's n•a unasy about killin' iv him ?" "maybe your honour id " Flol I your tongue, ye fool," said the squire, " an' I'll tell you why I'm unasy on my leg," says he. "In the place where I spend most iv my time," says he, "-except the little leisure I have for looking about me here," says he, " I have to walk a great dale more Ora , ' I was ev , ..x used to," says he, " and by far more than is good for me either," illy, he ; " for I must tell you," says he, " the people where I am is uncom monly fond iv could wather, for there is nothing b tther to to be hal ; an' rnorever, the wather is hotter than is altogether plisint," says he; " and I'm appintcd," says he, " to assist in carryin' the wather, an gets a mighty poor share iv it myself," says he, " a mighty troub'esome, warin' job it is, I can tell you," says he; " for they're all iv them Fri, prisingly dhry, an' dhrinks it as fast as my legs can carry it," says he; but what kills me intirely," says he, " is the weakness in my leg," says he, " an' want you to give a pull or two, to bring it to shape," says he, " and that's the long and short iv it," says he. " Oh, plase your honour," says my father (for he didn't like to handle the speerit at all)," I wouldn't have the impitence to do the likes to your honour," says he; " it's only to poor crathurs like mys-lf I'd do it to," says he. _ . " None iv your blarney," says the 'squire, " here's my leg," says he, cockin' it up to him, " pull it for the bare life," says he; " and iv you don't, by the immortal power powers I'll not lave a bone in your cars cish I'll not powdher," says he. When my father heered that he seen there was no use is pretending, so he tuck hold iv the leg, an he kep punt' an' pulling, till the sweat, God bless us, begin to pour down his face. "Pull, you divil," says thesquire. "At your service, your honour," says my father. " Pull harder," says the squire. My father pulled like the divil. " I'll take a little sup," says the squire, reaching over his hand to the bottle, " to kee,r up my coutne," says he, an to be ye:), wake in himself intirely. But, as cute as he was, he was out here, for he tuck the wrong one. " Here's to your good hearth Terence," says he ; " an' now pull like the very divil,'' an' with that he lifted the bottle of holy wather, but it was hardly tr his mouth, whet he let a screech out, you'd think the room id fairly split with it, an' made one chuck that sent the leg chute aft' his body in my father's bawls ; down went the squire over the table, an' balg wint my f,ther half way acr , ss the room on his bank upon the flare. Whin he kern to himself the cheerful mornin' sun was shinia' through the wii.dow slathers, an' he was lying flat on his back, with the lej iv one of the great ould chair polled elute out iv the socket an' ti3ht in his hand, pintin' up to Vt. ceilin', an' ould Larry fast asleep, an' snorin' as loud as ever. My Lithe: wint that mornin' to Father Murphy, an' from that to the day of Iv, death he never neglected contissic.n nor mass, an' what he tould . was bet titer believed that lie spelt° av it hu'. seldom. An', as for the squire, that is the speerit, whether it was that he did t - t like his liquor, or b; rason iv the loss iv his leg, he was never known to walk again. The 4. Orphans of Dunasker," and the " Convicts of Lis namona," are continued in this Number. The " Memoir P,;', Lloyd, late Provost of Trinity College, Dublin," is from a pen fully competent to so important a task. We have read it with lively interest. We recommend the Diamond will be Trumps again" as an aurpropriate melody for the after dinner exhiliration of poor Colonel Verner. The ex-Deputy-Lieutenant of Tyrone and Col -niel Blacker might manage to sing it as a duet—now that through the indulgence of Lord Mulgrave they have been released from the performance of mo:e onerous duties than those entailed upon them as officers of the Grand Lodge. As a whole this Number is duller than usual. In general the articles are too long and too elaborate for the subjects of which they treat. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday the Queen, attended I y her !Royal visitors and suite, took her accustomed airing. In the afternoon the Earl and Countess of Albemarle i• - • rivet], on a visit to her Majesty. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, with Prince George and Princess Augusta, took their departure, attended by Lord and Lady C. fitzroy, The Royal dinner party pf yesterday included the follow ing :--Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Argyll, the Duke and Duchess pf Sutherland, Baroness Lehzen, Lady Mary Stopford, Lady MulL,rave, Hon. Mrs. Campbell, Hon. Miss Murray, Miss Davys, Hon. Miss Lister, Viscount Torrington, Hon. Colonel Grey, Hon. W. Cot - Ter, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Colonel and Lady C. Harcoorl; Earl and Countess of Albemarle. This morning her Majesty, accompanied by the Duchesi'of Kent, Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Lady M. Stopford, lion. Colonel Grey . Viscount • , Torrington, and others of the Royal suite, attended Divine Service at St. George's Chapel. The chant was Mr. Elvey's (organist to the Queen); the service was Boyce, in A ; and the Sanctus and responses by the Hon. William Ashley ; the creed was King's in F; and the anthem, " Blesed be thou," Kent. The Reverend the Provost of Eton performed the communion service, and the sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. W. Moore, Peter, chap. 5, ver 8. In the afternoon the Queer!, attended by the. Countess Mul grave, the Duchess of Sutherland, and Lady Albemarle, took an airing in an open pony phaeton. The Duke of Argyll rode out in an opei: carriage. Colonel Giey and the Hon. W. Cowper followed the Queen's carriage on horseback. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent remained et the Castle. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George. end the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr, and Colonel Cornwall, arrived at Cambridge House, Picca dilly, at half-past two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, front a visit to the Queen, at Windsor Castle. The Duchess and Princess Augusta of Cambridge attended Divine service yesterday in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley street. At the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning, the sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Anderson, Chaplain in Ordinary, from Luke xii., v. 35. The Marquis of Head fort, the Earl of Harrowby, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, Lord Eliot, and Sir Charles Thornton, were amongst the nobility and gentry present. Colonel Cathcart, with despatches for Lieutenant-General Sir John Colborne, Corn:rander of her Majrsty's forces in Canada, left town on Saturday right for' Canada. Sir George Arthur, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, left town oa Saturday afternoon for Ealmouth, to embark for Canada. The Commander of the Forces had an interview with Viscount Melbourne, on Saturday, in Downing-street. Mr. Gould had an interview with Lord Glenelg, on S!4tur day, at the Colonial Office. Viscount -Palmerston left town on Friday, for his scat Broadlands, Hants. Despatches from the Governor of the ,West India Colonies were received yesterday, at the Colonial Office. Lord Holland entertained Viscount Melbourne and a select party at dinner, on Saturday, at Holland House, Kensington. Mr. Poulett Thomson has left town on a visit to Sir Charles Taylor. BRIGHTON-SUNDAY. - - It is confidently reported that moorings arc to be placed for a Royal yacht opposite the town sometime during the spring, and that the Queen intends to make Brighton a summer resi dence. Lord and Lady John Russell and family are still sojourning at the Bristol Hotel. Baron and Baroness Rothschild hare, left t'tc Albion Hotel for town. Major-General Sir F. Trench, M.P.; has also taken his de parture for the metropolis. Lady 'Fwysdcn has engaged a house on the Marine Parade. It is stated in a local print that the Duke of St. Alban's and Miss Burdett Coutts - are expected shortly in Brighton. The Duke of Richmond is entertaining a distinguished party at Goodwood, including Lord and Lady Arthur Lennox, Lord William Lennox, Lady Sophia Lennox, and Lady Tcm plemore and family. Earl and Countess de Grey arz d;spens;ng their hospitality at Newby, Mil', Ilorotighbridge, Vorkshiro. Elveston Hall, the splendid seat of the Earl and Countcsi of Harrington, near Derby, will be the scene of /T re at fetthiti - ty.xi %%eel:, when the Duke of Wellington, Duke of Rutland, Maroui: of Granby, Lord Charles Man en, aid Sir Francis Burdett, Bart., will be among their guests. , The Duke of Northumberland his joined li's Duchess at Alnwiek Castle, Northuniberland, where their Graces are entertaining a family. circle. • The Duke and Duchess - Of Somerset have arrived at their seat, Stover House,. Newton Abbot, Devon, where Grves will sojo ern until the latter end of this month, when they will return to town fur the season. hhe Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry are 'till at Yo tnt Stewart, Neittownard. , , in the county of Down; and, at the expiration of the holidays, they intend to return to \Vynyard Hall, Durham.. The Noble Lord . will, probably, nturn to town about,the time Parliament re-nssembles, but the Nlarshioness and family are not expected before April.' The Earl of Sheffield; at Sheffield Place, in Sussex, sees company during the holidays. The Earl of Mexborough, at Mithley Park, in Yorksbi , e, is keeping up the ancient hospitality. . The Earl of Roschery is keeping open house at Dalmeney Park Linlithgoa.shire Lord and Lady Milton arrived at the Clarendon Hotel 01 . Saturday evening, from Brighton. The noble lord will entertain a sporting party at his hunting lodge, at Melton, during the present month. Lor.l Brougham has arrived at Beau Desert, the seat athe Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesea, where his lord hip intends staying 10 days. Sir \Vatkin Williams Wynn, Bart., is dispensing his.' usual bounty to the poor at Wynastay. Lord Skelinersdale and the Hon. Bootle Wilbra ham are entertaining a party of fashionables at Latham House, Ormskirk, in Lancashire. Lord Dundw., at Aske Hall and 'Upleatliam, is keeping open house, and liberally contributing tothe cloth;ng of the poor. Lord and Lady .Hatherton and family are passing the winter at Rome, but to return to England in March. Earl Fitzwilltam, with his usual consideration, caused. upwar ls of 500 5:01ICS of beef to be dist.ibuted among the poor of his neighbourhood in Christmas week. The Earl - of Devon is entertaining a family party at Powderhain Castle, his magnifie •nt scat in DeVonshire. A Russian fl.iet, consi.,tina of ten vessels, sailed on the 24th of November from .Sebastopol, to cruise on the eastern coast of the Week S a. TILE PQST OFFICE.-From Mr. Hill's pamphlet on Post-office Ref.rni, it appears that the number of le•tars chargeable with postag.. t ;2t p.ss through all the Post-offices of Vic United Kingdom in a year, is ; b tut 89,01b0,000; ditto franked, 7,400,000 ; number of tiewsptpers, 30,000,000 ; total, 127,000,000. The annual expenses of all kinds, 606,562/. At Copt Hall, in Essex, the anciiit family seat of Henry John Conyeri, Eq., much hospitality prevails. Lord Adolphus. Fitzelarence and his intimate filend Mr. George Wombwell are amongst the guests. The Prince and Princess of Capon and family are expected shortly to arrive in this country from the south.of France, where they are now so.o.uning. The Earl Ducie is displaying his usual philan thropy at his princely palace at Morcton-in the Kash, Gloue cestershire. The Archbishop of York has male a donation of four tons of coals to the debtors in York Castle, and his Grace last week caused his usual eolati in of beef, bread, and pota toes to he distributed a r.orgst the poor of Bishopthorpe, and of coals to Inc poor in York. Thc children of the Agricultural and Sunday Schools of Little Gaddesden, amounting to about 150 in number, dine to-day ( New Year's-day) at Ashridge, the seat of the' Right Hon. the Countess of B.!dgewater. They are always re eat d with plenty. of roast-beef and plum-pudding, and a plant m skfficit of the strongest ale. Eight hundred o' the Grenadier Guards, and the same number of the Coldstreams, received orders yesterday morning at eight o'clock, to hold 'themselves in readiness to embark for Canada, it is supposed ia the course of the 'week. . Lord Dinorben is entertaining a fashionable party at Kimmel' Park, near St. Asaph's.• Viscount Ebrington, who has been on a Visit at Ede Stoke Park, the scat of Sir John Cam. Hobliouse, at De vises, his Lr iced at Hardington Patk, near Frome. The flonotirahie Charles S anley, the youngest son of the Earl of Darby, and his lady, arrive! at the fatuily man sion in Gr, sveuor square on Saturday last, from a tour. The gaieties eminence. this dry at Coombe Abbey, .he hospitable seat of the Craven family.. -The E:al. and Countess of Verulam, Lord and Lady Emily Cri;nteon, and Mrs. Grimston, leave Gorhatiantiry this morn ng foe that place. The Speaker of the How e of Culiiir.cuS and Mrs. Abereromby have arrived at Stubbing Cisurt, near Derby, for -he recess, bat will retura to Carlteu House-terrace o n the 13th instant. • • ~, . , , ' F r ~~.. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUATIV 1, 1838.